Rabbit sculpture sells for US$91M, setting record for living artist

A 1986 “Rabbit” sculpture via American pop artist Jeff Koons bought for US$91.1 million in New York on Wednesday, a list worth for a piece via a dwelling artist, Christie’s public sale space mentioned.

The playful, chrome steel, 104 cm prime rabbit, considered some of the celebrated works of 20th-century artwork, used to be bought for greater than $20 million over its pre-sale estimate.

Christie’s mentioned the sale made Koons the highest-priced dwelling artist, overtaking the $90.three million list set final November via British painter David Hockney’s 1972 paintings “Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures.)”

The glossy, faceless outsized rabbit, clutching a carrot, is the second one in an version of 3 made via Koons in 1986.

The sale follows some other record-setting public sale worth this week. On Tuesday, some of the few art work in Claude Monet’s celebrated “Haystacks” collection that also stays in non-public arms bought at Sotheby’s in New York for $110.7 million — a list for an Impressionist paintings.